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Mistakes have their place. As a society matures, its elites seek to get more and more of its surplus output for themselves. They “milk the system”, becoming more corrupt over time. They get richer. Th

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I repeatedly come back to this subject because I think it is one of the most important yet overlooked issues in global finance. The geopolitical ramifications are enormous. Something that the Trump ad

Gold succumbed to gravity this week. After a phenomenal surge – almost 30% in two months – it slipped by 6.3% on Tuesday, the biggest daily fall since 2013 (see page 4). Good. As gold bugs we like to